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Theatre Ecology: Environments and Performance Events
Baz Kershaw
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Description for Theatre Ecology: Environments and Performance Events
Paperback. A study into the relationships between performance, theatre and environmental ecology. Num Pages: 372 pages, ill. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 598.
This book asks what are the challenges to theatre and the purposes of performance in an ecologically threatened world? Is there a future for theatre as an ethically and politically alert art through environmental action? How might ecological understandings refigure the natural virtues of theatre and performance? Theatre Ecology gets to grips with such questions by investigating an eclectic cosmopolitan sample of environments and performance events, in theatres and beyond. It proposes that performance is a peculiarly twenty-first century addiction at the root global warming. Encountering this prospect head-on, it searches for pathological hope in historical theatre at the end ... Read more
This book asks what are the challenges to theatre and the purposes of performance in an ecologically threatened world? Is there a future for theatre as an ethically and politically alert art through environmental action? How might ecological understandings refigure the natural virtues of theatre and performance? Theatre Ecology gets to grips with such questions by investigating an eclectic cosmopolitan sample of environments and performance events, in theatres and beyond. It proposes that performance is a peculiarly twenty-first century addiction at the root global warming. Encountering this prospect head-on, it searches for pathological hope in historical theatre at the end ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521120746
SKU
V9780521120746
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